Dredging up a perennial favorite. I caught most of SW on TV last night. Had another observation hit me that I’ve never noticed before.
When making the raid on the Death Star, getting ready for the final run, Luke sets up for the run with two other pilots backing him up. My question: how did Luke become a leader? I mean, he’s a rank amateur straight off the backwater farming planet. Sure one guy knows him from before, and he did come in with the Princess, but he wasn’t the pilot on that flight. So what’s the deal? Shouldn’t he be the junior lackey guy? Shouldn’t he be low man on the totem pole? Why does he get the cushy job of firing the torpedos rather than the fodder job of being the backup team, who’s only role is to fly some distance behind Luke so the Tie Fighters have to kill them first?
And what kind of a battle strategy is that? Oh, we’re getting chased by fighters and have no rearward guns. Let’s just sit here and get shot. Shouldn’t they do something cool like fly out of the trench and try to get behind the Tie Fighters or something? I mean, all they do is sit there and get shot. What a great strategy. :sheesh:
I just love how they get their asses shot off. They send something like 20 ships, and 3 come back (4 counting the Millennium Falcon). At least that is somewhat realistic - they were fighting that supposedly vastly overwhelming odds and all.
Is there a Red 4? I’m listening to the pre-attack readiness check, and the numbers seem to have some gaps. I don’t recall a Red 4. There may be some others missing.
Old complaints:
“If you strike me down, I’ll become more powerful than you can imagine.” Yeah, I’ll become an energy field that only other Jedi can see and talk to. I’ll have no influence in the material world except what I tell this one Jedi. Now that’s power. :rolleyes:
“See these blast points? Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.” Like the rest of the movie when shots are careening all over the place? They can’t seem to hit shit. Maybe it was placed explosive charges instead of blaster bolts he was talking about?
How else could they salvage the Jabba scene? It was originally filmed with some actor stand in, but GL didn’t like it and cut it for original release. For the restored version, they added in a digital Jabba, but there’s the problem that at one point, Han walks right behind and around him. It can’t be avoided or cut because it interrupts the whole scene. So they fudged it where Han walks across Jabba’s back, and Jabba makes some grimace face. It just feels wrong. It doesn’t work. What else could have been done? Craft it so Jabba does a quick piroette right at that point? Pretend Han takes a big* step?
I still hate the change to the Greedo scene. That scene was a classic. It set the tone for Han’s character. It worked. It was not gratuitous. It made sense. I completely understood and the advanced age of 9 that Han was forced to shoot first. Now it makes Greedo a blind incompetent nitwit with the reflexes of a sponge. How could Greedo shoot first at that range and miss? And Han’s slight head bob? Bah! That change practically offsets all the improvements through the rest of the movie.
The landspeeder scene when the stormtroopers stop Luke and Ben and question them. They made it too busy. I accept that GL wanted to make the market more crowded, more active, more like a busy port than a deserted street. But he put too much between the camera and the scene. Both a beast walking by, and a droid? It’s too much, and distracts from the real scene. Stuff in the background is fine, even a brief interruption right before, but not during the scene.
Okay, your turn.
